The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-24
THE Orphans Home bill is pro-


crossing through the legislative
mill very satisfactorily to its
friends, and is very sure to become
a law. The HERALD hopes the
Legislature will pass the measure
and provide for the establishment
of the home as soon as possible.
AS to the location, it would be just
to give this one of the states pub
lie institutions TO the growing
northwest; and the HERALD can
think of no more suitable point
than Abilene. Abilene will be
the crossing of two or three main
trunk-line roads ere the building
could be completed; is i'm the ge-
ographical center of the state, and
will not long remain on the out
skirts Of population. The rich
soil Of Taylor county, which has,
during an unprecedented drouth,
produced fine melons and vegeta-
bles, and which is admirably
adapted for grape-growing and
light agriculture, would afford
healthful and profitable employ
ment to a portion of the larger oc
cupants and its gardens would,
with little expense, be made pro-
ductive of all such supplies for
the home as could be grown from
fertile soil. As healthfulness is
of first consideration in the selec-
ton of location, the salubrious
and invigorating atmosphere of
the western prairie country is as
essential as any other advantage
which can be named. Then the
enterprising and public spirited
people of Abilene will lend some
substantial assistance in the estab-
lishment of the home at that
place. The west should have it.
THE legislature is correct in its
effort to do away with the "bucket-
shop" business. 1t is claimed to
be a legitimate business, but the
farmers of the country and their
friends in the Legislature will not
be quick to understand how it is,
when prices of their produce can
be controlled to unreasonable low
prices until it passes from the
hands of the producers to the
hands of the spectators. An in
stance of this power is cited in
Phil. Armour's famous future"
transaction, when he bought all
the pork in sight and 100000
barrels more than was supposed
to be in existence, at the low price
Of s10 per barrel, and then after
depressing the market closed it all
out at $3.50. Armour made
100000 by that future" trans
action. The consumers of pork
paid the bill, but the producers
got no benefit of it. The "bucket-
shop should be made to go.
THERE is no difference in the
crime of robbery of twenty-five
: cents and one dollar, but there is
difference in reporting numerous
highway robberies which do not
occur. That's what the HERALD
objects to and desired to correct.
When two boys get out and scuflle
over the favor of a fair one, the
event should not be reported as
highway robbery with worse in
tent. A record for much crime is
not to be desired by Dallas, espe-
cially when it is undeserved. Then
ii gives unnecessary alarm on the
part of our people.
A NEWSPAPER Is as important 10 town
as q clnpper is 10 bell. A town without
a good newspaper II IN the fix Of a man
without a tongue.--Texarkana Times.
Then, how's Dallas with its for
ty-five publications, and the Chris
tan Advocate and German Post
coming from Galveston -? Some
thing like a female woman rights
meeting, Ell?
The Frisco bridge across Red river
sixteen miles north of Paris, was COM
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